Dimmesdale's health is quickly going down the drain and he is having heart trouble, not to mention various other health complications. ... And that is exactly what Hester does, she becomes his third leg to help him stand through all of his turmoil and pain. She recommends that he escape to Europe, but he feels that he is not strong enough to go alone, so Hester agrees to go with him. ... Hester's strength goes far beyond what was expected from women in that day and age. ...

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The 169 cm woman in Rome seems to be in pretty good condition, yet she is missing the bottom portion of her left leg and from images, she doesn't appear to have been restored in any way. ... The back of the piece shows womanly legs and torso topped with the apparent head and hair of a woman, even a breast, yet surprisingly enough the figure has the sexual organ of a male! ... The artist has done a lovely job at carving the forms features so that when the sculpture in lit, it's face and legs are dramatically lit or shaded. ... The model goes from being a perfectly lovely and normal...

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The ideal woman's figure emphasized busts, legs, and the full curvaceous form typical of Marilyn Monroe. ... The famous Barbie doll was introduces in 1959 with her long legs, big breasts, no hips and tiny waist. ... (Wolf) The public knows that body types go in and out of fashion. ...

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She shows her attentiveness to her husband by suggesting they go to the museum, something Michael mentioned earlier in the week. ... We don't often like to think of a fourteen year old being satisfied to spread her legs for any boy who approaches her in the right way. ... She says that you can open your legs but can't, or don't dare anymore, to open your heart. ...

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, when she writes of a Catholic girl who must go home and tell her mother she is a prostitute. The girl finally breaks down and tells her mother, who in turn goes ash gray. ... She writes, "He has dedicated his entire life to flipping off light switches giving rise to his theory that "It is better to break your leg in the darkness than to curse the light bills."" ... Bombeck goes on to say that the mother has three sets of eyes, six pairs of hands and "run on black coffee and leftovers." ... This humorous interpretation of motherhood shows all that mothers must do to keep a family going, b...

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• Grade Level: High School

I had very limited access to education as women were regarded as inferior human beings, a famous saying goes ˜a girl is virtuous if She has no talent'. ... I remember my legs were broken which was quite painful for keeping myself in the name of beauty in men's eyes. ... No member of the family can dare go against the will of the ancestors due to the long time tradition of respecting the elder and the fear of the unpleasant consequences. ... The large number of children in my family is also a barrier for me to staying domestically instead of going outside. A lot of time is requ...

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Men come and go as they please, men do as they please, men fuck who they please, men are taller, men are stronger, men are wiser, men are bigger, men just seem to be the luckier of the species and the list can go on and on. ... I was then treated like a boy, dressed like a boy, and made to feel this way on a daily basis, interestingly enough, I'm pretty certain that I would think that I am a boy, regardless of what genitalia is in between my legs. ... The same I feel goes for not only gender roles but for race roles, religion roles, and feelings of hatred, so much so, that the age old phi...

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Marriage, now, is defined as the formal recognition of the union between a man and a woman (or, in some jurisdictions, two people of the same sex) as partners in a relationship. Yet in the 1800s marriage was just seen as an investment. The Awakening by Kate Chopin illustrates how marriage is used to...

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• Grade Level: High School

Then it hit me, like a kicked ball directed towards my balls, I should go to the source, the statistics department. ... I knew right from the beginning that it was going to be an outrageous experience. ... She told me to go down to the registers office, which was completely on the other side of campus, and they should help me out with my problem. ... Sweat, not only ran down my face, but my back and legs too. ... On my way there, I was practicing what I was going to say. ...

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Browsing through the advertisements published in the magazine, one is immediately aware that almost every single ad features an attractive looking woman with generously endowed breasts, a slim waistline, a healthy tan, long flowing hair, luscious lips, pearly white teeth and gorgeous smooth legs. ... It also neglects to take into account any dressing that may go into the salad containing almonds. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, the whole you go, girl!' ... Once upon a time, men held doors open for women, helped them with their seats, let them go first in line, and many other gentlemanly things. ... Therefore, most fit young women who have their complete set of two arms and two legs, should not have doors opened for them. ... It was because the men made the women and children go to the lifeboats first. ... Women deserve all the rights of men, but going too far is, simply put, going too far. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

And if they fail to attain such an expectation, they are taught to feel ashamed and guilt-ridden until they go out to the store and purchase the necessary products capable of altering their misguided self-image. ... " The ad also goes a long way towards perpetuating the "superwoman myth" seen across so many of today's advertisements. ... This ad asks all women to go out and purchase this company's product so they will come to appear as beautiful and desirable as the woman pictured in this ad, and in turn become as noticeable to men as they've always wanted. ... ...

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The day the narrator's father is going to shoot Mack, who is the horse to be used as feed for the foxes; she wants to see how it happens. ... Once the execution of Mack happens the narrator says her legs were shaky then immediately wants to look for new born kittens in the barn, as if to cleanse her visual palate of what she had just watched. ... Henry and the father get into the truck to chase Flora down, on the way out of the gate Laird, once again, is yelling excitedly "let me go too, let me go too!...

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Advertisements are all around us in society and can portray simple objects as fascinating merchandise that we feel the need to buy. In Susan Bordo's essay "Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body," she discusses how men are characterized in advertisements as well as in society. Bordo expresses the need f...

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Throughout the ten-year long civil war, hundreds and thousands of women and girls were subject to widespread sexual violence in Sierra Leone. This means around 215,000 to 257,000 women and girls may have been subjected to such violence during this time. ("We'll Kill You If You Cry " p.25). Nicholas ...

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You can not help but feel insecure next to the one-hundred and fifteen pound blonde with long legs and blue eyes. ... I can not even go into to detail how much I do with my make-up. ... Why do I find it so necessary to go through all these processes every morning before I am seen by anyone in public? ... I wonder if they would go through the same processes I do every morning. ... At the end of Stewarts spread in the post she goes into detail about one of his songs and she claims "He doesn't just sound happy; he sounds like he won" (Stewart). ...

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• Grade Level: High School